To help me support this idea, I have interviewed two people with seemingly different political views. One is my grandfather and the other being my sister. My grandpa was born in the mid 40’s making him a baby boomer and my sister who was born in …show more content…
Which suggests that there are news biases in favor of both sides of politics.
To help reinforce this article I decided to ask my sister and grandpa about how much they trusted a news source based on a scale from one to five. Five being the greatest amount of trust, and one being the least amount of trust. When asked about Fox News, my grandfather responded with a five, and my sister responded with a 1. Which is consistent with the data as said by Amy et al (2014). I then asked about MSNBC, and my grandfather responded with a one, while my sister responded with a
4. Also, once again consistent with the previous data talked about. I then asked about google news, first making sure my grandfather has used it before, and he responded with a three, while my sister responded with a five. This is for the most part also once again consistent with Amy et al (2014).
The next subject matter that reinforces that the media has biases is the fact that many of the journalists for these news outlets have strong ideologies favoring one side or the other. Per
Mark, David, Dhavan, and David P. (1999), “Dole and other elite critics of the media cited as evidence